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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/
2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html

We've known about Tillerson calling Trump a "fucking moron" for a long time now, but this is the deepest dive into the context behind I think we've gotten yet - and it might be one of the most pathetic and petty episodes yet.

The headline quote is the: "You're a bunch of dopes and babies." Trump delivers to a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff + Mattis, Tillerson, Pence, Mnuchin, and Bannon among others.

But you also have him saying, "You're all losers. You don't know how to win anymore.", "I wouldn't go to war with you people.", "Where is the fucking oil?", and ironically, "You would go bankrupt if you had to run your own business."

The whole article is a trip. Most of it is centered on a 2017 meeting in the Pentagon with the people noted above which apparently started as a joint effort by Tillerson, Mattis, and Cohn to try and stage an intervention to explain to Trump in his kind of language the importance of NATO and our other alliances and deployments. With it characterizing it as Bannon thinking that they critically failed by still using internationalist language that triggered Trump and caused the meeting to increasingly go off the rails culminating in his tirade. With Tillerson making the infamous "fucking moron" comment in reference to it after the fact.

Though it also details a future meeting in the Situation Room where it looked to be heading the same way and implies that Tillerson interjecting to head it off is part of what sealed his fate shortly after. Also speaks briefly on how things would turn out for other key players in the room at the time like Mattis and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Dunford.

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